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Bearcat
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You need a generator with a 220 outlet. Around a 4500 and above. You can back feed if you have a 220 outlet anywhere in the house or garage. Had a cable made for male plugs on both sides to do this. It works. BUT, unless you spend the bucks to have a properly installed switch to kill power going out, shutting off main breaker wont stop going out and may electrocute folks working on your power lines close by. I still do it provided I am home to monitor it. But it feeds the entire house with my 5500 generator. Your welcome to come over and check out my setup.
Nuclear power is the way to go but the storage sucks. Used to work at the nuclear plant years ago. The waste was supposed to go to yakka mountain in new mexico but they pulled the plug on that. Once they found out that they built the storage over a major fault line, they decided it was a bad idea. Now monticello has to store the waste on site.
BTW, my gaming cruncher is dying a slow death. Don't crunch with it but may have to use the amd cruncher for my game time and reduce crunching time until I build another. The prices for components to build new is just nuts.
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Sgt.Joe
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The prices for components to build new is just nuts.

No argument there. The prices won't improve until the chip shortage eases, but that does not look likely until at least June or later.
My generator talk is a lot more talk than action right now, but time will tell. I appreciate the offer to see your setup. I know you need a double throw switch installed so you do not backfeed into the lines and those are not cheap. I am just thankful the power here is very reliable.
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If you stay home during the outage and pay attention if workers are close working on your lines, don’t need the expensive switch. Just shut it off if you see them near by.
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bluestang
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Re: Minnesota Crunchers

Look for an Interlock Switch made specifically for your electrical panel. Cheapest way by far to feed your house with a portable 220V generator.

This one was for my panel...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Q01YUK/
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Re: Minnesota Crunchers

Look for an Interlock Switch made specifically for your electrical panel. Cheapest way by far to feed your house with a portable 220V generator.

This one was for my panel...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Q01YUK/

Thanks for the info.
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I finally made the 45d badge for Help Stop TB. That took forever.
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I finally made the 45d badge for Help Stop TB. That took forever.

Congratulations, well done. Yeah, those TB units are certainly scarce. I was hoping to get 5 years on that project, but cut it off after 2 years just to give everybody else who was looking for some badge to be able to get what they were after. It is nice to get a badge, but, after all that is not the reason we do this. There is plenty of computing power available to this project for all the work the researchers want to throw at the grid. Not like MCM or OPN(cpu not gpu) which seem to have more than enough work for al the available computing power. Even ARP if you like the longer running units.
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I am not into tooting my horn, but I just noticed I turned in my 2 millionth result a few days back. That was a long time coming, a little over 15 years. Crunch on.
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I am not into tooting my horn, but I just noticed I turned in my 2 millionth result a few days back. That was a long time coming, a little over 15 years. Crunch on.
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Congrats, that's quite an achievement considering the average unit takes presumably over an hour to finish. Must be well over 2 million hours of CPU core time then, perhaps 4 million even.

On my end I just got back to the top 100 for all-time points. Last time I was that high was back in the HCC GPU days in like 2013. Seems like our overall member numbers are dropping significantly though, so I can't take all the credit. Will also have to take a little break soon due to vacation.

Keep on keepin' on. Good day.
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Must be well over 2 million hours of CPU core time then, perhaps 4 million even.

A little over 5.5 million hours.
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